Slide buckle



F. HIRSH SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Feb. 2, 1925 AQL . INI/Enron Bm@ Patented July 31, 1928.

UNITED ASTATES PATENT UFFlCE,

FRED HIRSH, OF NEVI YORK, N, Y., ASSIGNOR TO ADJUSTA. COMPANY, OF NEW YORK,

` N. Y., A CORPORATION F NEW YORK.

SLIDE BUCKLE.

Application led February 2, 1925.

rEhe invention relates to a buckle or slide. of the slotted metallic plate type, for the adjustable attachment of a strap to another part of the same strap or to a second strap or otherI article; and the primary object thereof is to provide a simple, cheap and otherwise satisfactory closure for the legs of boys, golfers and other knickerbockers.

For a long period of time knickcrbockers, or knee pants, were worn only by boys. In recent years they have becomeinore and more popular for golf and other sports. But the great bulk of the demand is still for boys ready-made knickerbockers, and the supply of these garments, to the retail trade throughout the country, is in the hands of manufacturers with whom the question of each item of cost is of prime importance.

The cuffs, or simple bands, with which the legs of the lmickerbockers are finished the bottom have for their closure been at different times provided with buttons and a great variety of buckles, all more or less satisfactory. For made-to-order garments buttons may be satisfactorily used, but no adjustment in size is possible except by the resetting` of the buttons. Hence the demand for buckles with adjustable hold. The early buckles were complicated, requiring a mechanic for their assembly, and therefore eX- pensive. Later there was produced a buckle which was fastened to the band by sharp prongs clinched at the back after piercing the cloth and was provided with teeth to hold the strap end, and this buckle was used for years and by the millions although objectionable because, being made of iron or tinplate, the prongs would rust and tear out of the. cloth and sometimes injure the legs and because it was difficult to use them for any length of time without tearing or wearing out the strap on the teeth. Owing to their objectionable features, however, buckles were at last condemned and buttons were again resorted to almost exclusively for the closure. As a final development, there has come the slide buckle--a slotted plate with a row of teeth along the edge of its outer bar, through which the strap end is threaded and which, in the cheaper grades of knickerbockers, is scwed directly upon the band or cuff or, in the form most approved for the higher grades, is attached thereto by a tape looped around the middle bar either permanently, by sewing down both ends of the tape or, re-

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bottom band or cuff of the knickerbockers or other part by rivets, or eyelets, provided at the back with large heads or washers, all preferably of a non-corrosive metal or alloy. l thus provide a buckle which can be supplied at low cost and can be cheaply attached, is securely held in place, and cannot be pulled off-a buckle, moreover, which is capable of withstanding the high pressures of the machines used to press ready-made clothing and thev wringing rolls of laundries. ln its preferred form, the buckle may also, if desired, be either sewed on or attached by a looped tape, or may be used as a simple slide to adjustably secure together the two ends of a strap both of which are threaded through its slots and held therein, and in place of the usual row of teeth the inner edge of both of its outer bars are upset to provide inturned lips against which the strap end is pressed by the cuff or part to which the buckle is attached and so held securely without slipping.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view illustrating my new buckle in its preferred form and as applied to the bottom cuff of a pair of knickerbockers; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the back of a modified form of the buckle and of the washers used therewith; and Fig. 4L is a sectional view showing this last buckle and the cuff or other piece to which it is attached.

Referring to Figs. l and 2, the buckle here shown consists of a flat plate 5 which is pierced' to provide a plurality of transverse bars and intermediate slots, the extended inner edge of the outer bars being upset to form inturned lips 6 6. The slot in its middle ber, which permits of the buckle beingl used as a strap fastener or in any of the Ways in which en ordinary slide buckle pro vided with three slots can be used, is slightly enlarged at or near its ends, at 7 7, in order to admit and at the same time prevent any shifting ot t-he buckle with respect to the Shanks oi the tubular rivets er eyelets 8 S by which the buckle is, or may e, attached to the cutl' 10 of the knickerbockers. The eyelets are provided et the back of the cuff with heads 9 9 large enough to prevent their pulling out. When the strap end 11 is threaded through the buckle and drawn tight, the cuil' will press it aiofiinst the lips ot the buckle and so provide a secure. closure.

The buckle can be attached by en ineX- perienced person with the aid of a. simple eyeletting machine. It costs less than :L buckle sewed on upon e sewing machine, and when once fastened in place cannot pull olii or shift. Furthermore? the buckle Wit-houtchange is capable of being used in a vern riety ot ways es stated.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4t, the lips 16 of the buckle 15 are provided with blunt teeth and the tubular rivets 17 are drawn outtrorn the middle ber 18. This may be done when the buckle is mede ner/esce of copper, brass, aluminum or similar inctiil. In attaching this buckle to u cull or other part 20, the rivets ure headed :it the buck over washers 19 to prevent their pulling; out.

rEhe buckle muy be further inodilied in iis` details within the scope oi" the :ippr-niled claim-2.

l lhzit clziini is new, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A buckle of the type described which comprises zi bodv pierced lo provide lour transverse bui-s und three iutrrnndizite :-:lo'1-1 the middle slot beingl enhirgcl edjuccnt rin-h ot' its ends.

2. A buckle oi2 the type desrrilgicd which comprises a. body pierced to providi` Aour transverse bri-rs und three intermediul'e slots. the two outer bers .having inf'urned lips along their inner edges and the middle slot havingun enlargement :it c ich ot' its ends.

3. A buckle of' the type described comprit:- ing e body pierced te 'forni :i pluruliii)v o l transverse bars and internicdiute slots, the inner edges ot' the two outer bers being' notched .find upset to provide inl'urned lips with blunt teeth, :ind7 es means for its attachment, two rivets fixed in transverse spaced relationship centrally thereoli.

FRED HIRSH. 

